HOUSE REVIEWS
BEN ARNOLD [email protected]
six tracks, each more solid than
the last, all hypnotic, but never
minimal. The driving '299',
bass-loaded 'Ghettonup', and
disorientating 'Bleep Clone' are
current favourites, but that could
easily change in time.
Shall Ocin
Conception
Culprit
7.5
HNNY
Tears EP
Local Talk
9.0
The last track HNNY (aka Johan
Cederberg) turned out for Swedes
Mats and Tooli's ace Local Talk
label was the organ-loaded
'Yearning'. Then before that the
magnificent 'For the Very First
Time'. Let's just say the bar was
set perilously high. Giving it
the full Fosbury Flop is 'Tears',
a stunner whichever way you
slice it. Deep, subtly jazzy, and
with just the merest hint of New
York garage with its occasionally
wailing diva, it may in fact reduce
men of a certain bent to tears.
'No Tears' is a slightly more offcentre edit, while 'Gymnastics'
on the flip is a full-on, cock-andballs-out disco thing, with filters
and everything.
is Herbert retouching 'Magical
Boy' from Koze's last long-player
'Amygdala'. The result is a thing
of rare wonder. Over an epic 10
minutes, Herbert takes something
already beautiful, and makes
it somehow more so, Rahel's
vocals used in their full glory.
It's sweeping and majestic. As
good, but in a different way, is
Efdemin's superlative mix of 'La
Duquesa'. One always expe